Grupo Gondi announced plans to build a new corrugated and high-graphic packaging plant near Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, with an investment of over $44 million. The plant will create 250 permanent jobs and will supply local manufacturers including Constellation Brands' Obregón brewery.

Crown Holdings will invest R$343 million over 12 months to build its first plant in Brazil's Center-West in Goiás, expected to employ 600 people and start operating at the end of 2019. The municipality is to be announced.

ITASA built a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a EUR 20 million investment, 150 million m2 annual capacity and 50 employees, starting operations in October 2018 with siliconing from February 2019.

SeaCa Packaging, owned by Seattle Tacoma Box Company, broke ground on a polypropylene carton plant in Surprise, Arizona, with a $17 million investment, 65 phase one jobs and completion targeted for April 2019.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will start construction of a new 22,000 sqm corrugated cardboard plant in Bolintin, west of Bucharest, on land bought in late 2017. Projected annual output is 180 million sqm.

Ball Corporation has inaugurated a new beverage can production plant in Cabanillas del Campo, Guadalajara, Spain. Ball invested more than 100 million euros in the facility.

Germany-based canmaker Blechwarenfabrik Limburg has invested €30 million (US$35 million) in a new plant on the outskirts of its home town of Limburg.

Packaging maker Rio Bonito Embalagens will invest R$15 million to build a factory in Bonito, Pernambuco, making egg and poultry and fruit packaging. Works start in January 2019 and operations are planned for February 2020, creating about 1,100 direct and indirect jobs.

Illinois-based Transparent Container is opening a new production facility in Tijuana's La Encantada industrial park, an 87,750-square-foot plant with 11 thermoforming lines. The company has not disclosed investment or job numbers.

Cuban-Italian joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, formed by Italy's Nelson Servizi and Cuba's Quimi SA, received approval to build a glass container plant in the Mariel Special Development Zone with initial investment of $90 million.

Prowell, part of Progroup AG, is constructing an eleventh corrugated sheet board plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with 140,000 tonnes annual capacity and about €50 million investment, creating 52 jobs; production starts in Q4 2019.

Crown Packaging is finishing its can plant in Parc Sagunt I, Sagunto, and will start production in October 2018 with 150 direct jobs, with two lines planned to produce about two billion cans a year.

Progroup AG is constructing its eleventh corrugated sheet feeder plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with annual capacity of 140,000 tonnes and an investment of around EUR 50 million. The plant will create 52 jobs and production is scheduled to start in Q4 2019.

Ring Container Technologies, a packaging manufacturer based in Oakland, Tennessee, is set to open a facility in Louisville, Kentucky later in September 2018 to serve customer Algood Food.

Danaflex opened a flexible packaging factory at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan on 6 September 2018. The total investment is planned at 3 billion roubles, and over 200 people are already employed there.

Dai Huu Joint Stock Company has commissioned its second packaging plant in the Quat Dong Industrial Cluster in Thuong Tin, Hanoi, with about 30,000 square meters of floor area. Total production capacity across its two factories rises to 145 million bags per year.

Ecolean, a lightweight liquid food packaging producer, acquired a 30,000 square meter site in Landskrona, Sweden, for a new production facility worth US$29 million (25 million euros), expected to be running in 2020 with about 100 new jobs.

Toyo Seikan decided to construct a new factory building for manufacturing flexible packaging containers within its Toyohashi Plant in Aichi Prefecture. The project costs 9 billion yen and is scheduled for completion in March 2020.

Schumacher Packaging is converting a former newsprint machine at its Myszków, Poland site into a containerboard mill, bringing start-up forward by 6-12 months, with 300,000 tpy of recycled containerboard capacity planned in two steps.

Ardagh Group opened a new can ends facility in Manaus, Brazil, with capacity to produce 12 million ends per day and more than 80 employees.

Progroup AG held the ground-breaking for its third paper factory at Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, on August 10, 2018. The EUR 375 million plant with 750,000 tonnes annual capacity will create 140 direct jobs and use a new Voith paper machine.

Oji Holdings will build a corrugated cardboard factory in Bekasi Regency, West Java, through its joint venture PT Oji Sinar Mas Packaging with Purinusa Ekapersada, with a total investment of 40 billion yen and output of 5,000 tons per month, opening January 2020.

Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. has built a roughly 500,000-square-foot aluminum can packaging plant in Goodyear, Arizona, with $240 million capex and 130 jobs. The plant is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2018.

Greif opened a steel drum and container plant in the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga region, Russia, with first-phase investment of 800 million rubles and 50 jobs created. Planned output is two million drums per year.

United Caps has announced the location of its proposed new €20 million plant in Rotherham to manufacture beverage and dairy closures.

SGT laid the first stone for a new 10,000 m2 factory in Chalon-sur-Saône making PET preforms, with an investment of nearly 28 million euros. The plant should be operational from spring 2019 and employ around forty people.

American Packaging Corporation's new 215,000 square-foot facility in Chili, Monroe County, is operating, after phase one of an expansion with nearly $50 million invested. The company has hired 70 people so far and plans up to 260 new full-time jobs over five years.

US packaging materials and equipment provider Shorr Packaging moved into a new facility in the Los Angeles area to meet growing regional demand. It will serve customers in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Luxembourg-headquartered United Caps plans to invest about €20 million to build its first UK factory in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, making beverage and dairy closures. Production is expected to start at the end of 2019.

UNITED CAPS, a caps and closures manufacturer, held an open house on June 21, 2018 celebrating its extended R&D facility in Messia, France, featuring a new Nescafé Gold closure developed with Nestlé.

Green Bay Packaging plans to build a new paper mill in Brown County, Wisconsin, replacing its 71-year-old mill, with an investment reported as over $580 million. The project is expected to retain about 600 jobs and create up to 200 more by 2022, with the new mill running by 2021.

Bangkok Can Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Japan's Toyo Seikan Group, is building a new two-piece aluminium beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, with a US$84.2 million investment. Startup is targeted for May 2019.

Mexican packaging company Empaques Nova inaugurated a new plant in Mérida, Yucatán, for making packaging paper and containers, with the Mexican Secretary of Economy attending. The ceremony was reported on 3 June 2018.

American Packaging Corporation completed the first phase of its new flexible packaging manufacturing facility in Chili, Monroe County, New York, in June 2018; the overall investment is $170 million across phases.

International Paper announced it will build a state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant in Atglen, Pennsylvania, employing about 150 people. Construction was set to begin in Q1 2022 with full operation expected in Q1 2023.

Austrian packaging maker Alpla plans a $21 million plastic packaging plant of 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse near Dayton International Airport, creating 50 jobs.

Richmond-based TemperPack will invest $10.4 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 141 new jobs. It will be the company's second Virginia facility.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a contract packaging firm, will invest $14.3 million to relocate and expand its Franklin County operation into a new 100,000 sq ft facility in the Summit View Business Park. The project is expected to create 50-60 new jobs within six years, with phase one completed by late 2019.

Progroup will build a new paper machine (PM 3) in Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Germany, with an investment of €375 million and 750,000 t annual output. Construction is scheduled to start in Q1 2019, with completion in the second half of 2020.

Lindal Group held a ribbon-cutting for its new 100,000 square foot facility in Columbus, Indiana, hosting manufacturing, R&D, offices and warehousing for aerosol packaging, part of over $20 million of US investment.

South African packaging maker Corruseal Group has commissioned a new corrugated board plant in Cape Town, equipped with a 2.5m Fosber S/Line corrugator and converting and materials handling machinery. The article is dated 1 June 2018.

Greif announced plans to open a new CorrChoice sheet feeder facility in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, with a corrugator and litho-laminator line and about 80 jobs. The announcement was made on 27 April 2018.

Shorr Packaging Corp. announced a new 125,000 square-foot distribution and warehouse facility in the Tech Park area of La Vergne, Tennessee, near Nashville, consolidating several local warehouses. The announcement was made in April 2018.

Japan-based Takigawa Corporation broke ground on its first US manufacturing facility, a 148,000 sq ft greenfield plant on 18 acres in Bardstown, Kentucky, producing high-impact consumer packaging. The facility will create about 180 jobs.

Polish packaging maker Can-Pack invested about R$1 billion in Brazil, mainly in aluminum can and can-lid plants in Maracanau, Ceara. The aluminum can plant was set to start operations on April 20, 2018, and the lid plant in mid-August 2018.

Takigawa Corp. America broke ground on a $46 million flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, expected to create 180 jobs. Construction is expected to finish in March 2019 with opening in April 2019.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung is building a new production site near Eppingen in Baden-Württemberg, part of a company investment of about 30 million euros in 2018, with 15 million euros for this site.

Mpact opened its new corrugated factory in Port Elizabeth on 11 April 2018, with a R100 million investment centred on a new BHS corrugator that more than doubles capacity.

Swiss packaging maker Hoffmann Neopac's US subsidiary has selected Wilson County, North Carolina for its first US manufacturing plant and new North American headquarters. The investment is reported at $31 million.

Mpact officially opened its new corrugated packaging factory in Port Elizabeth on 11 April 2018. The R150 million project centers on a new corrugator supplied by German machine maker BHS and more than doubles the plant's capacity.